Adam Wagstaff
World Bank
314 Papers
4.4K Citations
Adam Wagstaff is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Health care. The author has an hindex of 75, co-authored 313 publications. Previous affiliations of Adam Wagstaff include University of Aberdeen & St James's University Hospital.
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•Book
Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and their Implementation
Owen O'Donnell,Eddy van Doorslaer,Adam Wagstaff,Magnus Lindelow +3 more
- 02 Nov 2007
TL;DR: This book shows how to implement a variety of analytic tools that allow health equity - along different dimensions and in different spheres - to be quantified to lead to more comprehensive monitoring of trends in health equity, a better understanding of the causes of these inequities, and more extensive evaluation of the impacts of development programs on health equity.
On the measurement of inequalities in health
TL;DR: It is suggested that only two methods--the slope index of inequality and the concentration index--are likely to present an accurate picture of socioeconomic inequalities in health.
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Socioeconomic inequalities in health: Measurement, computation, and statistical inference
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between two widely used indices of health inequality and explain why these are superior to others indices used in the literature is explained and the role that demographic standardization plays in the analysis of socioeconomic inequalities in health.
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Analyzing health equity using household survey data : a guide to techniques and their implementation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a step-by-step practical guide to the measurement of a variety of aspects of health equity, including gaps in health outcomes between the poor and the better-off in specific countries or in the developing world as a whole.
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Catastrophe and impoverishment in paying for health care: with applications to Vietnam 1993–1998
TL;DR: Two threshold approaches to measuring the fairness of health care payments are presented, one requiring that payments do not exceed a pre-specified proportion of pre-payment income, the other that they do not drive households into poverty, and the incidence and intensity of 'catastrophe' payments were reduced and became less concentrated among the poor.
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